MIT Free/Open Source Software Paper Repository

Welcome to the old home of the MIT Free/Open Source Software
Paper Repository which was available online at freesoftware.mit.edu, opensource.mit.edu and foss.mit.edu and which was run by Karim
R. Lakhani, Eric von Hippel, and Benjamin Mako
Hill.

After many years of maintaining this archive, we have decided to
retire and discontinue the old web site. In order to ensure that others
still have access to the wonderful collection of papers that so many
people worked together to build, we have transferred our full database of
papers over to FLOSS Papers which has, in turn, transferred its
database to FLOSShub Biblio. All of the
working papers made available on this site should now be available on
the FLOSShub.

Do to recurring spam and security concerns, and to avoid maintaining
the archive in two places, we have taken our copy of the archive
offline.

If you have any questions about the archive or if you believe that
there is data in our archive that is not available on FLOSS Hub
or elsewhere, please do not hesitate to contact us at opensource@mit.edu. Our
copy remains intact and we are happy to dig into it for you. Of course,
please keep in mind that we are volunteers and it may take us a little
time to get back to you.

Finally, although the two mailing lists
— F/OSS Community and F/OSS
Discuss — have also been taken offline, archives to the
two mailing lists are still available online.